Palm wood fish hook bound with plant fibre yarn and attached to a coil of line. [LM 20/06/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Palm wood fish hook bound with plant fibre yarn and attached to a coil of line. [LM 20/06/2007]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Oro Province Ijivitari District Collingwood Bay
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source William Downing Webster
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1898
Materials and processes: Material Palm Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material String, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 85 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1898.63.3.1
Associated publications: This is probably the hook illustrated (line drawing; two views?) as number 1 in Figure 32 on page 80 of Fish Hooks (Pacific Island Records), by Harry G. Beasley (London: Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd, 1928). Beasley writes (page 81) under the heading 'Part II. Papua and Melanesia' and sub-headings 'Papua' and 'Mainland and Islands Adjacent' : 'Fig. 32 shows a further series of these hooks of a size more usually encountered; the methods of construction, however, are identical. No. 1 is from the Oxford Museum, and it is stated that it is made from palm wood.... The hooks measure approximately 2 in. (5.1 cm.) in length.' [JC 24 6 2016]